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Dapple Tool

Dapple Tool.  A punch with a sphere on the end for punching spherical indentations in models, patterns, dies. It is sometimes used with a dapple die – a steel block with various size dapple impressions – for use on thin gauge metal or shells.

excerpted with permission from

An Encyclopedia of Coin and Medal Technology

For Artists, Makers, Collectors and Curators

COMPILED AND WRITTEN BY D. WAYNE JOHNSON

Roger W. Burdette, Editor


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